My living-room Mirror

Hi,
I’ve just finished building my MagicMirror.
First I’d like to thank MichMich and the community around this great project.
I’m using quite a few third-party modules and I contributed the MMM-MPR121 one that I’m using on this mirror.
I’m using the following third-party modules:

googlemap

iFrame

MMM-Globe

MMM-ModuleScheduler

MMM-ProfileSwitcher

MMM-MPR121

MMM-Remote-Control

MMM-SystemStats

motiondetector

voicecontrol

Here are the features I currently have implemented:

Display a calendar, weather forecasts and satellite earth view

Display my wife’s unread email list

Automatic display of a Google map trafic view from my home to my work location (iFrame with auto-refresh)

Display a webcam in an iFrame

Voice command (I gave it up for now since it’s not reliable enough and I don’t want to use any cloud-based voice recognition service)

Touch command

Motion detection using the PI Camera

It should soon display a live video feed from my 3D printer too.

I bought a used LCD monitor with built-in speakers and ordered a custom-built wooden picture frame from a local shop.
I bought the two-sided mirror from a local shop. It’s very good looking but also very expensive (95€ for a 500x310x6mm frame).

I made the rear box from a 65x18mm plank, glued to the picture frame.
I secured the fixation by epoxy-gluing metal plates between the box and the frame and screwing right angle brackets between the box sides.
The miror is attached to the wall by 2 pairs of Z-shaped clips.

The screen is held by wooden cleats screwed into the box.

I gave up on through-glass touch commands. It was almost working but was lacking sensitivity and the mirror would get stained very quickly.
So I used what’s called in France ‘Parisian clips’ as touch-buttons located on the bottom side of the box.

I’m using an MPR121 breakout board and my MMM-MPR121 module (a modified version of the MMM-Buttons module using the Adafruit MPR121 Nodejs library) to have up to 12 touch-buttons.

So far I’m only using 3 of them, with 2 functions on each button: a short and long touch function:

Button 1 - short: “default” profile

Button 1 - long: Shutdown the Raspberry Pi

Button 2 - short: “webcam” profile

Button 2 - long: “trafic” profile

Button 3: not used (yet)

Button 4 - short: “my wife’s” profile (display her unread emails)

Button 4 - long: “default” profile

I had to put the RPi power supply further from the buttons since it was randomly triggering false touches.